There are two ways to make your pedigree available to the project administrator for posting on the Patriarch Page:1. Send the pedigree by email directly to carrie@worldfamilies.net in the simplified form described below(If you send it this way, your pedigree will only be posted on the Patriarch Page, and will not be included in the Pedigree Forum) Be sure to include Email address you wish to be posted with the pedigree Kit number of the project participant whose pedigree this is Name, birthdate, birthplace, spouse for each generation (direct male line).

2. Log-in to post your pedigree on the Pedigree Forum.By posting your pedigree on the forum, you are making it available for the Project Administrator to post it on the Patriarch Page, along with your contact information, and kit number (or code identity number).

oProvide the kit number and/or project code identity number if pedigree is for a tested participant

oUse surname with each generation

oDon’t use all caps

oDon’t include anyone whose birthdate is after 1910, for privacy concerns.

oDon’t number the generations

Scroll down to the last posting on this forum and click "reply". Post your pedigree in the box provided, and click "Post".

If you do not see a"reply" tab, it means you have lost your log in and will need to log in again in order to post. Go back to the project home page, log in again, and return to the pedigree forum. Login should hold the second time.

My great grandmother was a Spierin and I believe that the name may have been corrupted somewhere along the line to Spearman (as well as a plethora of other possible variants, from Spering to Speiran to Spearing). My pedigree is below (my own line and all the males in related lines who survived to adulthood). She was not on my maternal DNA line but I have traced all the living Spierins in Dublin and they all descend from my g-g-g grandfather Patrick Spierin, who probably came from Limerick. The Limerick Spierins in turn were probably related to the Speringe’s of London (1633 Visitation) and they are reputed to have come from Germany. I am in contact with distant cousins who are part of the direct paternal line (and I will ask them if they would be interested in participating). Anyway, please feel free to check out Maurice Gleeson's family tree at MyHeritage.com (but remember to click on the Dublin Spierin’s tree in the drop-down menu in the upper right corner of the tree view).